Lydda
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Nasr Saba, who lives in Laguna Hills but was born in 1938 in Lydda — now part of Israel and called Lod — says he is “older than Israel.”
From Los Angeles Times
Musa Hassouna’s family lived in Lod long before the creation of Israel, when it was an overwhelmingly Palestinian Arab town known as Lydda.
From Washington Post
Under the U.N. partition plan for Palestine in 1947, Lydda was to lie outside the borders of Israel.
From Washington Post
Fighting erupted at Lydda, and when it was over, according to Israeli accounts, more than 200 Palestinian civilians had been killed.
From Washington Post
Lod, which traces its history to the days of Canaan and is known as Lydda in Arabic, has a particularly fraught history centered around the creation of the state of Israel in 1948.
From New York Times
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